Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

This course will examine the liberal professions, i.e. those occupations which require individuals to be listed in specific registers held by the respective orders and/or bodies and which are regulated by Article 2229 et seq. of the Italian Civil Code ("Intellectual professions"). In an attempt to understand why certain professions have been "institutionalised" and not others, this course will highlight the favourable social circumstances and the appropriate strategies behind the success of certain occupations, and not of others, in obtaining the privileges and powers pertaining to professional status. The professionalising processes will also be examined in detail at a diachronic level through the history of the main European liberal professions from the fall of the old regimes to the present day. During the course - and using as material the book of S. Turow, Harvard, Facoltà di legge, Milano, Mondadori, 1991 (Italian translation of: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School) - a lecture/seminar will be spent comparing the teaching systems in force at the famous Harvard Law School with those practised at ours.